The paper provides empirical evidence that the reforms carried out under the Single Market Programme were associated with increased product market competition.
We develop a dynamic discrete choice model of training choice, employment and wage growth, allowing for job mobility, in a world where wages depend on firm-worker matches, as well as experience and tenure and jobs take time to locate.
This paper develops a concrete formula for the asymptotic distribution of two-step,
possibly non-smooth semiparametric M-estimators under general misspecification.
This paper exploits substantial regional variations in the non-Muslims proportion of the population on the eve of the war of independence (1954) in Algeria to evaluate the long term impact of colonial discrimination in public goods allocation on education levels.
Motivated by several interesting features of the highway mowing auction data from TexasDepartment of Transportation, we propose a two-stage procurement auction model withendogenous entry and uncertain number of actual bidders. Our entry and bidding models provide several interesting implications.
This paper presents the trends seen over the last quarter of the 20th Century in various indicators of the well-being of the elderly alongside those seen for the young.
The paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme implemented in rural areas in Colombia in 2002, on school enrolment and child labour.
This paper considers how competition can affect aggregate innovative activity through its effects on firms decision whether or not to vertically integrate.
This paper uses unique district level data on landmine contamination intensity in Cambodia combined with individual survey data to evaluate the long run cost of Cambodia's 30 years war (1970-1998) on education levels and earnings.
This paper formalizes conditions under which a population distribution ofcategorical responses to attitudinal questions (items) has a scale representation; developstests for whether a particular sample of item responses is consistent with a scale representation; develops methods for nonparametrically estimating the relation between an outcome and a scale value; and generalizes the foregoing to the multi-scale case.
We estimate the effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) on subsequent employment by nonparametric instrumental variables and matching estimators.
We propose inference procedures for partially identified population features for which the population identification region can be written as a transformation of the Aumann expectation of a properly defined set valued random variable (SVRV).
We consider nonparametric estimation of a regression function that is identified by requiring a specified quantile of the regression "error" conditional on an instrumental variable to be zero.
Efficient semiparametric and parametric estimates are developed for a spatial autoregressive model, containing non stochastic explanatory variables and innovations suspected to be non-normal.
We summarise what economic theory predicts about how retirement savings decisions are affected by marginal withdrawal rates created by the tax, tax credit and benefit system, and by the information individuals are provided with.
